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Business entities in Florida and New Jersey, plus 25 storefronts on Amazon and eBay, sold old Cisco gear that had been cosmetically altered to seem like new, more advanced models, part of a conspiracy going back eight years. The counterfeit-distribution operation was selling the networking devices for a tenth what it would cost if they were legitimate, according to the US Department of Justice. It estimated the conspiracy took in more than $100 million in…

Cars in constant conversation with road sensors. Autonomous vehicles. Progress toward zero emissions. These are just a few highlights of digital transformation showcased at Cisco Live, held June 12-16, 2022. I and my fellow attendees—in person and virtual—were treated to example after example of “wow” experiences both here today and coming tomorrow – all powered by data. These experiences are based using the network as a “digital nervous system.” It senses by connecting cameras, IoT…

SD-WAN is now a foundational part of the cloud journey for organizations adopting Infrastructure-as-a-Service for on-demand application availability. But that journey needs to continue ever-evolving. The option of manually stitching the connectivity from branch to cloud or region-by-region is no longer efficient or scalable. Keeping pace with this evolving reality, Cisco became the first vendor in the industry to natively integrate SD-WAN with major cloud service providers (CSPs), automating site-to-cloud connectivity and creating a uniform…

A new managed WAN service from AWS promises to make it faster and easier for enterprises to build, manage, and monitor a global network that seamlessly connects cloud and on-premises environments. AWS Cloud WAN, which the company previewed in December, lets customers link cloud resources in on-premises data centers, branch offices or colocation sites and manage that environment through a single dashboard. Using the dashboard, networking teams can apply policies, automate configuration and security tasks…